New Copyright law implications for DVD on Linux?

[James]

No the bill allows programs that bring functionality to support that does
not exist(in the case of linux) thus it being legal

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:27 PM, George Standish
<george.standish at gmail.com>wrote:

> CBC's Article title "Copyright bill would ban breaking digital locks"
> at
> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/02/copyright-bill-clement-montreal.html
>
> Would this make DVD playback on linux illegal?
>
> As dvdcss2 (also installed using libdvdread4) from Medibuntu would
> probably qualify as "breaking" the DVD encryption lock.
>
> If this is in fact the case, the Ubuntu/Linux communities in Canada
> need to speak out!
>
> Can someone confirm/deny my suspicion?
>
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